Only two tickets to get into the Funhouse.
Drama. Life unfolds in a dozen different ways, with a dozen different dramas. Life as a cable box, switching from one channel to the next, one a soap opera…another a news channel and another a sitcom. Some are melodramas, some comedies…and some are hugely important events that happen in real time, but seem strangely distant…
Today’s America is a confusing America. The world is even more confusing. It’s hard to know what’s acceptable in our Imperial State and our world-spanning empire. It’s not acceptable to write a letter to a local newspaper’s editorial page calling for the end of the Bush Administration. A Veteran’s Administration nurse did that. After dealing with…
You might have missed it. It’s easy to do. We’re moving rapidly into territory once reserved for totalitarian regimes. Spying, prison camps, aggressive wars and invasions. That’s our America. The new, improved America! Not that everyone’s cooperating. Congress heard about this funny little program called Total information Awareness. Run by former Iran-Contra badguy John Poindexter,…
Can you keep a secret? It’s an important part of relationships…between friends, between lovers, between military commanders, between political operatives and in the spooky world of covert operations. Secret identities, secret plans, secret lovers, secret peccadilloes. We all have our secrets. Revealing personal secrets can get you fired, divorced and ostracized. Revealing state secrets can…
News is often debate masquerading as information. Debate is not, in and of itself, information. Although some prefer information and facts, we have been treated to an ever-increasing diet of blathering on, posturing around and obfuscating of the story of the day. A document is revealed, two sides debate its contents. It pisses me off….